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xv, [17]-624 pages 22 cm

Added t.p.: Recollections of a busy life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; to which are added miscellanies ... also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. By Horace Greeley. New York, J.B. Ford and Co., 1868

A sample of the Scotch-Irish -- Our folks at Londonderry -- "The times that tried men's souls" -- Rural New England fifty years ago -- My early school days -- Adieu to New Hampshire -- Westhaven -- My apprenticeship -- My faith -- A year by Lake Erie -- My first experiences in New York -- Getting into business -- Temperance in all things -- Politics -- Play-days -- Triumph -- Log-cabin days -- The Tribune -- Socialism -- Harry [Henry] Clay -- Margaret Fuller -- Beggars and borrowers -- Dramatic memories -- "Old Zack" [Zachary Taylor] -- Congress ; Mileage -- Congress as it was -- Glamour [that is, Glamor]

Lake Superior ; Mining ; Chicago ; The prairies -- The great senators ; The Compromise of 1850 -- Libels and libel-suits -- Europe ; The World's Exposition -- The dissolution of the Whig Party -- The slavery controversy -- The new era in politics -- My farm -- My farming -- "Seward, Weed, and Greeley" -- Europe revisited ; Paris ; Switzerland -- Two days in jail -- "The Banks Congress" ; The long contest for Speaker -- Fremont ; Buchanan ; Douglas -- A ride across the plains -- The Rocky Mountains ; The Great Basin -- Utah ; Nevada -- The Sierra Nevada ; The Yosemite ; The Big Trees -- The future of California -- The presidential election of 1860 -- Secession ; How confronted -- Our Civil War ; Actual and possible -- Abraham Lincoln -- Jefferson Davis -- Authorship ; Writing history -- My dead

MISCELLANIES. Literature as a vocation -- Poets and poetry -- Reforms and reformers -- The grounds of protection -- Sundry lecturing reminiscences : A day's ride in Maine ; A ride across the Alleghanies [that is, Alleghenies] ; A night-ride across the prairies ; A winter flood in Illinois -- Marriage and divorce : a discussion between Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen

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